Proposals and Contracts Specialist

Proposal & Contracts Specialist

When our values align, there's no limit to what we can achieve. At Parexel, we all share the same goal - to improve the world's health. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, every clinical development solution we provide is underpinned by something special - a deep conviction in what we do.

Each of us, no matter what we do at Parexel, contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately will benefit a patient. We take our work personally, we do it with empathy and we're committed to making a difference.

US Homebased

A Proposal & Contracts Specialist with Parexel is a client facing role and requires consistent management of the proposal and contract management processes, development of client-specific standards as required, documentation and negotiations. This position collaborates internally with varying levels within our organization requiring excellent customer service skills, attention to detail, and the ability to be persistent while communicating appropriately and effectively. Facilitates and guides the development of client-ready budgets for proposals and contracts deliverables.

Key Accountabilities :

• Overall management responsibility for the contract process for specific or varied accounts including coordination of Operations, Project Management, Legal, Business Development and Finance to prepare, review, and negotiate contracts.
• Development of account specific standards for contracts, including presentation of budget, payment terms, standard contract language, etc., and discussion / negotiation with client as appropriate.
• Creates, negotiates, and finalizes contracts in accordance with departmental SOPs / guidance / work instructions.
• Amend project budgets as required in partnership with the project and functional teams ensuring all information is included from all groups.
• Utilize all internal tools and reports to appropriately amend client budgets.
• Develop a contract strategy to create the contract plan for delivery and client signature with accountable team members.
• Provide quality client deliverables to strict deadlines ensuring the formatted client grid presents the proper rationale for the cost changes.
• Attend all relevant internal meetings.
• Proactively leads and facilitates client meetings as required to negotiate costs and terms by targeted client signature date.
• Prepare draft contract documents from Parexel templates per guidance and in conjunction with relevant departments.
• Identifies and manages contractual issues that require finance / tax / other internal stakeholder input and applies lessons learned to similar scenarios in new contracts.
• Ensure all documents and files are saved in the appropriate areas and keep all data updated regularly in systems used for metrics and KPI purposes.

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